This week’s post is short and sweet and something to think about from a guy called Edward De Bono who wrote a book I read years ago ‘Lateral Thinking’

The trouble with creative thinking in art is that it is so easy to stop halfwayIndeed the less talented have no choiceEscape from the old ideas becomes a virtue in itselfOriginality is allThere is an enthusiasm to step down from the limitations of accepted orderinto the limitless potential of chaosBut too often this step is regarded as an achievement in itself rather than only the first stage towards achievement the true purpose of lateral thinking is not to wallow in formless chaosbut to emerge from it with an effective new ideaThe new idea is likely to have a classic simplicity of formIt is likely to have an orderliness which is far from the formlessness of the chaos from which it emergedThe ideal aimed at in lateral thinking is the simplicity of extreme sophisticationThe simplicity of an idea that is very effective in action and yet elemental in its formIt is the simplicity of richnessNot of povertyIt is the simplicity of fullnessNot of emptiness